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shamster is here now.. it is awesome!and it is my birthday! A QUARTER OF A CENTURY!!
Thanks to the U of R for buying me lunch and dinner and alcohol for the last three days in a row!
shamster is here now.. it is awesome!and it is my birthday! A QUARTER OF A CENTURY!!
Thanks to the U of R for buying me lunch and dinner and alcohol for the last three days in a row!
Visiting IGPP
Nov. 18th, 2003 05:38 pmI spent the last two days at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics in San Diego. It was ``networking'' pure and simple, a chance for me to meet the people working there and to hear about all the cool projects that are going on. My advisor from the summer program in Alaska I did four years ago consults now for IGPP, and he invited me down for the visit.
IGPP is perched on the bluffs overlooking the ocean. You can sit outside and hack away on your laptop, connected to the wireless network, while listening to the waves crash below, looking out at the lights on the pier. Inside the discussion ranges from the formalisms of knowledge systems (and programs in prolog, haskell, and home-brew grammars for describing streams and ontologies) all the way through wireless links to sensors in the field: seismometers, digital video cameras... it's "the information superhighway meets the dirt path" or something to that effect. Cool stuff. I even ran into another Plan 9 enthusiast (who pointed me to the super cool 9grid project) — that's like meeting an Esperantist!
Tomorrow I'm visiting The Aerospace Corporation and a couple people at UCLA!
why bother with Europe?
Jun. 12th, 2003 12:34 amFlew into Boston Logan yesterday, on an early morning American flight out of Orange County. Enjoyed the thrilling pirates-of-the-caribbean underworld of the urban T (as they call the subway here), and the transitition into the countryside on the ride out to Newton Highlands. I'm staying with my friend Andrew (we met in Physics 137A while loitering by the LeConte homework boxes, hastily scribbling out answers to our problem sets) who just got back from two years in China, the first on EAP and the second independently. (He was shunned when he got back, for fear of SARS — but now medical tests have averted those fears.) Anyway. Needham, MA. Bright, sunny weather; broad-leafed deciduous trees, quaint New England homes.
Swimming today. Barbequed hamburgers. Visiting Andrew's high school friends, watching the Animatrix, now Buffy. Went out for Cantonese food. Good times. Today was like something from Clerks, hanging out with Andrew's old highschool buddies and transitive friends. Comic book stores, arcades, even the Newton mall.
Swimming today. Barbequed hamburgers. Visiting Andrew's high school friends, watching the Animatrix, now Buffy. Went out for Cantonese food. Good times. Today was like something from Clerks, hanging out with Andrew's old highschool buddies and transitive friends. Comic book stores, arcades, even the Newton mall.
